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Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week - Discovery Prize 2022 · Winner
Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara Rigo Mora International Award 2022 · Winner
Academy Award Short Film (Animated) 2023 · Nominated
Audience Award International Competition: Won 2023 Academy Awards: Best Animated Short: Nominated Annie Awards: Best Animated Short Subject Won Quirino Awards: Best Ibero-American Short Film: Nominated Best Visual Development Won Best Animation Design Nominated Best Sound Design and Original Music Nominated
- Bruno Caetano, Michael Proença
- João Gonzalez
- Cola, Wild Stream
- João Gonzalez
Jan 4, 2023 · January 4, 2023. João Gonzalez’s animated short film “Ice Merchants,” which won a prize at last year’s Cannes Critics’ Week and is short-listed for an Oscar, opens with a stark image: a ...
Feb 21, 2023 · Oscar-Nominated ‘Ice Merchants’ Filmmakers Reveal the ‘Weirdest Thing Ever’ of Awards Season. Director João Gonzalez and producer Bruno Caetano chat about their animated short nomination, an...
Jan 17, 2023 · João Gonzalez directs Ice Merchants, one of the 15 2023 Academy Awards Best Animated Short Film finalists. It’s about a father and son who live in a house on the edge of a cliff. Each day, they dive way, way down, providing ice to townspeople. Their lives are exciting… and quite dangerous.
In these institutions he made 2 multi award-winning films, NESTOR and THE VOYAGER. In 2022, he became the first Portuguese animation filmmaker to be awarded at Festival de Cannes, winning the Jury Prize for Best Short film in competition at the Critics Week with ICE MERCHANTS.
Jan 4, 2023 · Nominated for Best Animated Short Film. The director and composer João Gonzalez’s imaginative animated film showcases a father and son’s daring ice-delivery method, set to a riveting score ...
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Aug 18, 2023 · A prize-winner at Cannes’ Critics’ Week, the film was nominated for an Academy Award. In an interview with Deadline, which includes a sort of spoiler, Gonzalez explains: “I started doing animation relatively recently, and when I started this film two or three years ago I was still not very comfortable drawing hair on characters.
